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. 2021 Aug 21;18:79. doi: 10.1186/s12986-021-00606-8

Table 3.

Enrichment analysis of the third trimester group

Pathway associated metabolite sets Enriched compounds Total Hits Raw p Holm p FDR
Urea cycle

Pyruvic acid; Oxoglutaric acid;

L-Alanine; L-Arginine;L-Glutamine

Citrulline

29 6 0.000325 0.0318 0.0176
Ammonia recycling

Glycine; L-Histidine; L-Glutamine;

L-Serine; Oxoglutaric acid; Pyruvic acid

32 6 0.000574 0.0557 0.0176
Glycine and serine metabolism

Glycine;Guanidoacetic acid;Pyruvic acid;L-Alanine;L-Serine;L-Arginine

Oxoglutaric acid; L-Methionine

59 8 0.000638 0.0612 0.0176
Valine-leucine-isoleucine degradation

Alpha-ketoisovaleric acid; L-Valine;

Methylmalonic acid; Oxoglutaric

acid; Succinic acid; Ketoleucine;

3-Methyl-2-oxovaleric acid; L-

Leucine

60 8 0.000718 0.0682 0.0176
Arginine and proline metabolism

Glycine; Guanidoacetic acid; L-

Proline; Oxoglutaric acid; Succinic

acid; L-Arginine; Citrulline

53 7 0.00173 0.163 0.034
Alanine metabolism

Glycine; Oxoglutaric acid; Pyruvic

acid; L-Alanine

17 4 0.00221 0.206 0.0362
Glutamate metabolism

Glycine; L-Alanine; Oxoglutaric

acid; Pyruvic acid; Succinic acid;

L-Glutamine

49 6 0.00571 0.525 0.0747
Aspartate metabolism

Oxoglutaric acid; L-Arginine; L-

Glutamine; N-Acetyl-L-aspartic

acid; Citrulline

35 5 0.00609 0.555 0.0747
Glucose-alanine cycle

L-Alanine; Oxoglutaric acid;

Pyruvic acid

13 3 0.00896 0.807 0.0976

Phenylalanine and tyrosine

Metabolism

L-Tyrosine; Phenylpyruvic acid;

4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid;

Oxoglutaric acid

28 4 0.0144 1 0.141
Carnitine synthesis

Glycine; Oxoglutaric acid; Succinic

acid

22 3 0.0388 1 0.346

Pathway associated metabolite sets with p value < 0.05 are shown in the table